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Selected Bibliography on Terracotta Figurines from the Southern Levant

Compiled by Adi Erlich
© Adi Erlich

Avi Yonah M. 1967. A Reappraisal of the Tell Sandahanna Statuette. PEQ 99: 42-44.

Avigad N. 1960. Excavations at Makmish, 1958: Preliminary Report. IEJ 10:90–96, Pls. 9–12.

Baramki D. C. 1936. Two Roman Cisterns at Beit Nattif. QDAP 5: 3-10.

Bisi A. M. 1990. Quelques remarques sur la coroplastie palestinienne à l'é poque perse: tradition locale et emprunts étranger. Transeuphratène 3: 75-84.

Chéhab M. H. 1951-1954. Les terres cuites de Kharayeb. BMB 10, 11.

Ciasca A. 1963. Un deposito di statuette da tell Gat. Oriens Antiquus II: 45-63.

Crowfoot J. W., Crowfoot G. M. and Kenyon K. M. 1957. The Objects from Samaria. London.

Derfler S. 1981. A Terracotta Figurine from the Hellenistic Temple at Tel Beer - Sheba. IEJ 31: 97-99.

El Khouri L.S. 2002. The Nabatean Terracotta Figurines (British Archaeological Reports International Series 1034). Oxford.

Elayi J. et Sayegh H 1998. Un quartier du port phénicien de Beyrouth au FerIII/Perse. Les objets (Supplément n. 6 à Transeuphratène). Paris.

Erlich A. 2002. Terracotta Figurines of Hellenistic Maresha: Between Art and Craft. Assaph 7: 1-16.

Erlich A. 2006. Hellenistic and Byzantine Terracotta Figurines. In A. Mazar ed. Excavations at Tel Beth Shean 1989-1996 I. Jerusalem, pp. 616-625.

Erlich A. 2006. The Persian Terracotta Figurines from Maresha in Idumea: Local and Regional Aspects. Transeuphratène 32 (2006): 45-59.

Erlich A. and Kloner A. forthcoming. Hellenistic Terracottas from Maresha, 1986–1996, Maresha Final Reports (Israel Antiquities Authority Reports). Jerusalem.

Erlich A. and Kloner A. 2007 (forthcoming). Plastic Vases and Rhyta from Maresha. Qadmoniot 134 (Hebrew).

Fischer M. 2003. A Terracotta Harp Player from Hellenistic Yavneh-Yam (Israel). In: Hickmann, E. and Eichmann, R. eds.. Studien zur Musikarchäologie IV…(Papers from the 3rd Symposium of the International Study Group on Music Archaeology at Monastery Michaelstein, 9-16 June, 2002) (Orient-Archäologie Band 15). Rahden/Westf.:Verlag Marie Leidorf, pp. 437-443.

Holland T.A. 1977. A Study of Palestinian Iron Age Baked Clay Figurines with Special Reference to Jerusalem: Cave 1. Levant 9: 121-155.

Horsefield G. and Horsefield H. 1942. Sela - Petra, The Rock of Edom and Nabatene IV: The Finds. QDAP 9: 105-204.
Iliffe J. H.1934. A Nude Terra - cotta Statuette of Aphrodite. QDAP 3: 106-111.

Iliffe J. H. 1944. Imperial Art in Trans - Jordan, Figurines and Lamps from a Potter Store at Jerash.QDAP 11: 1-26.
Keel O. and Uehlinger C. 1998. Gods, Goddesses and Images in Ancient Israel. Minneapolis.

Kertesz T. 1989. Terracottas and Worked Bone Artifacts. In Z. Herzog, G. Rapp and O. Negbi. Excavations at Tel Michal, Israel. Minneapolis and Tel Aviv, pp. 361-364.

Kletter R. 1996. The Judean Pillar-Figurines and the Archaeology of Ashera (BAR International Series 636). Oxford.

Linder E. 1973. A Cargo of Figurines of the Persian Period Discovered in the Sea off Shavei Zion. Qadmoniot 21:27–29 (Hebrew).

Messika N. 1997. Excavation of the Courthouse site at `Akko: The Hellenistic Terracotta Figurines from Areas TB and TC. Atiqot 31: 121-128.

Moorey P.R.S. 2001.Idols of the People, Miniature Images of Clay in the Ancient Near East. Oxford.

Negbi O. 1966. A Deposit of Terracottas and Statuettes from Tel Sippor (Atiqot VI ). Jerusalem.

Nunn A. 2000. Der figürliche Motischatz Phöniziens, Syriens, und Transjordaniens vom 6. bis zum 4. Jahrhundret v. Chr. (Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 18). Friburg.

Nunn A. 2002. Images et croyances au Levant du VIe au IVe siècle av. J.-C. Transeuphratène 23:9–25.

Pritchard J. B. 1943. Palestinian Figrines in Relation to Certain Goddesses Known through Literature. New Haven.

Reisner G. A., Clarence S. F. and Lyon D. G. 1924. Harvard Excavations at Samaria, 1908-1910. Harvard University Press.

Roll I. and Tal O. 1999. Apollonia-Arsuf, Final Report of the Excavations, Vol. I, The Persian and the Hellenistic Periods. Tel Aviv. Pp. 190–191.

Rosenthal Heginbottom R. 1995. Terracottas from the Hellenistic Period. In E. Stern ed. Excavations at Dor, Final Report, Ib (Qedem Reports 2). Jerusalem, pp.455-456.

Rosenthal Heginbottom R. 1996. Stamped Jar Handles and Terracotta Fragments. In A. Ben Tor, M. Avissar and Y. Portugali eds. Yoqne`am I, The Late Periods (Qedem Reports III). Jerusalem.

Stern E. 1982. Achaemenid Clay Rhyta from Palestine. IEJ 32: 36-43.

Stern 1982. Material Culture of the Land of the Bible in the Persian Period 538-332 B.C.. Warminster, pp. 158-182.

Stern E. 1989. The Beginning of the Greek Settlement in Palestine in the Light of the Excavations at Tel Dor. AASOR 49: 107-124.

Stern E. 1995. Clay Figurines and Popular Cult Objects of the Persian Period. In E. Stern ed. Excavations at Dor, Final Report, Ib (Qedem Reports 2). Jerusalem, pp. 435-454.

Stern E. 2002. Goddesses and Cults at Tel Dor. Qadmoniot 124:108–112 (Hebrew).

Tufnell O. 1953. Lachish III, The Iron Age. Oxford. Pp. 374-381.

Wenning R. 1983. Hellenistische Sculpturen in Israel. Boreas 6: 105-118.